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Justice as Right Actions - An Original Theory of Justice in Conversation with Major Contemporary Accounts (Hardcover)
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Justice as Right Actions - An Original Theory of Justice in Conversation with Major Contemporary Accounts (Hardcover)
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Justice as Right Actions presents an original theory of justice
anchored in the analytical philosophical tradition. In contrast to
many contemporary approaches, the theory provides normative
guidance, rather than focusing solely on political structures and
institutions, as the question of justice is seen to comprise both a
moral inquiry concerned with questions of good and bad, right and
wrong, and a political inquiry, concerned with the nature of the
polity and how individuals relate to it. Presenting a relational
account of justice, rather than a distributive account - the
latter, so much more prevalent in current studies - communications
are seen as the key to the theory, both in the substantive sense as
a discursive method of resolving disputes, as well as
instrumentally, in the transmission of concepts, especially values
through time. Rule-oriented in approach, justice as right actions
attempts to be value-neutral, acknowledging, however, an underlying
thin theory of the good, including concepts of rationality,
autonomous moral agency, equal concern and respect for others, as
well as plurality of values. Its political context is liberalism,
with components of negative liberty and equality of concern and
respect, while underscoring as well, the concepts of tolerance and
social diversity. In this study, the original theory of Justice as
Right Actions is also contrasted with and situated among
contemporary accounts of justice, including the most important
theoretical works on the topic in the past half-century. Thus, the
study also serves as a valuable review and critique of such major
contemporary accounts of justice.
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